Dew Drop – July 26, 2018 (#2774)

Top Links

• Blazor 0.5.0 experimental release now available (Daniel Roth)
• Meet your 2018 Imagine Cup champions – smartARM of Canada! (Charlotte Yarkoni)
• Uno.Prism – Uno Platform port of Xaml Behaviors (Brian Lagunas & Dan Siegel)
• Angular v6.1 Now Available — TypeScript 2.9, Scroll Positioning, and more (Stephen Fluin)

Web & Cloud Development

• Build a state management system with vanilla JavaScript (Andy Bell)
• Embedding Angular Components into a Legacy Web App (Bob Nadler)
• Kubernetes is Now Available In Docker Desktop Stable Channel (Jim Armstrong)
• Publishing ASP.NET Core web applications to IIS, FTP, and more with Rider 2018.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Moving ApplicationUser with Identity UI Library (Steve Smith)
• Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight (Steve Michelotti)
• Developing Real-Time Web Applications with Server-Sent Events (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Do Things Right with npm install (Jessica Kerr)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Resolving Android Support Library NuGet Installation Issues (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin.Tip – Adding a Password Toggle Button in Android (Alex Dunn)
• Previewing Files Inside Your Xamarin.iOS App (Jimmy Garrido)
• Introducing the Windows UI Library (Marco Minerva)
• Top 4 ways to optimize your Microsoft Store listing (Microsoft Store Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Data Breakpoints – Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Update (Leslie Richardson)
• C# Basics – Development Environment Setup (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2018 Update and IntelliSense auto-configuration for CMake (RongLu)
• C# 8 Ranges and Recursive Patterns (Bassam Alugili)
• Find method parameters with WinDbg (Benjamin Perkins)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Procrastinators, Rejoice! How Waiting Until The Last Minute Can Help Us (Amy Rigby)
• Documentation and Developer Onboarding (Dave Nicolette)
• Shorter Feedback Loops Help Us Learn Faster (Johanna Rothman)
• The Different Roles Within the Field of QA and Testing (Kayleigh Oliver)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Final preview update, official Android P coming soon! (Dave Burke)
• Create a Tap-and-Hold Toggle Opacity Animated Box with Reanimated in React Native (Jason Brown)
• Flutter Challenge: YouTube (Picture-In-Picture) (Deven Joshi)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – GraphQL with Cory House (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Central Podcast 98: Microsoft is doing well (Zac Bowden)
• The Changelog 307: AWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Azure IoT Hub Manual Failover | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• SSW TV – Solving first world problems with .NET Core and SignalR | Liam Elliott (Sophie Belle)
• PPP 208 | (Video) What I Taught Today About Applying an Idea from Scrum (Andy Kaufman)
• Syntax Podcast – The Undocumented Web: scraping, private APIs, proxies and “alternative solutions” (Wes Bos)
• Complete Developer Podcast – White Label Apps Part 1: Development (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 142: Do You Have a HEAP of Hurting? (Carlos L Chacon)
• Alexa Dev Chat Episode 023 – VoiceFirst in 2018, Where Are We Now? (Dave Isbitski)
• Developer on Fire Episode 359 | John Rouda – Leading Wisely (Dave Rael)
• Gone Mobile 71: Exploring GraphQL with Glenn Block (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• Episode 24: Five Things About NLP | Five Things (John Papa)
• 2FD 088: Debt Collectors, Credit Report Errors, Identity and Property Theft (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Bot Framework QnA Maker: Creating Knowledge Bases with the CLI (Michael Szul)
• Windows Insider Podcast – Jobs of Tomorrow (Jason Howard)
• Software Engineering Daily – Ghost: Open Source Publishing Platform with John O’Nolan (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Announcing Alexa Sessions at re:Invent 2018 (Amit Jotwani)
• Find out how gamers with disabilities helped design the new Xbox Adaptive Controller’s packaging (Athima Chansanchai)
• Summer of MakeCode for kids (Emily Maryatt)
• Welcome to the new home of I.M. Wright’s Hard Code (Eric Brechner)
• ng-conf 2018 with Sani Yusuf (Rob Lauer)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Observation: ROWLOCK Hint and Slow Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Connect to Azure Cosmos DB from Explorer (Abhijit Jana)
• Couchbase Go SDK 1.4.0 Released! (Charles Dixon)

PowerShell

• A PowerShell Pester Check for parsing SQL scripts (Rob Sewell)
• DSC Resource Kit Release July 2018 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

• Outlook.com goes dark, to match Windows 10 Mobile (Steve Litchfield)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 and Build 18204 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2630 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #2144 (Mike Gunderloy)

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